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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Horace Walpole
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1. The letters contained in the quarto edition of his works,
published in the year 1798.

2. His letters to George Montagu, Esq. from 1738 to 1770,
which formed one quarto volume, published in 1818.

3. His letters to the Rev. William Cole and others, from 1745
to 1782, published in the same form and year.

4. His letters to the Earl of Hertford, during his lordship's
embassy to Paris, and also to the Rev. Henry Zouch, which
appeared in quarto, in 1825.

And 5. His letters to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court
of Tuscany, from 1741 to 1760, first published in 1833, in three
volumes octavo, from the originals in the possession of the Earl
of Waldegrave; edited by Lord Dover, with an original memoir of
the author.

To the above are now added several hundred letters, which have
hitherto existed Only in manuscript, or made their appearance
singly and incidentally in other works. In this new
collection, besides the letters to Miss Berry, are some to the
Hon. H. S. Conway, and John Chute, Esq. omitted In former
editions; and many to Lady Suffolk, his brother-in-law,
Charles Churchill, Esq., Captain Jephson, Sir David Dalrymple,
Lord Hailes, the Earl of Buchan, the Earl of Charlemont, Mr.
Gibbon, Mr. Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham, George Hardinge,
Esq., Mr. Pinkerton, and other distinguished characters. The
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